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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] SUMMARY: Linear Referencing |
| Date: |
12/21/2005 09:10:02 PM |
| From: |
Bill Thoen |
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On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 07:39:44AM +0530, Sree Rama Murthy D wrote:
> That was very nice of Amanda to consolidate the things. Thanks for that.
> Been observing people not replying all. Suggest if every body can mark
> the idea/suggestion/answer to the list instead to a person.
Opinions vary, but on busy lists the custom is to respond directly to the person
posting the question, and they edit the responses and repost a summary with
the keyword "SUM:" or "SUMMARY:" in the subject. That provides an easily
referenced nugget of information that goes into the list's archives that
future readers can search before asking a similar question.
Of course, there are exceptions. You should respond to the whole list
instead of the person if your message broadens or narrows the topic or if
you want to move the subject tangentially into a new thread. But when you
get right down to it, there are no rules: just guidelines intended to keep
the signal to noise ratio as high as possible.
If you ask anything beyond a trivial question and you get private replies,
you really should post a summary. Even if you get public replies, you ought
to post an *edited* summary so that the next person with the same question
need only read your summary to get their answer. Those who don't follow the
netiquette guidelines will eventually find that their questions go
unanswered, so the tradition is sort of self-annealing. Help the list, and
it helps you. Become a parasite, and you'll be ignored.
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